Blockchain for Business 2019电子书

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Blockchain for Business 2019

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Bitcoin, Blockchain, and Cryptoassets

An introduction to blockchain

The rise of blockchain

Key features of blockchain

Ease of access

Blockchain – the internet of money

The hype of industrial companies around blockchain

Impacts of blockchain

Impacts in the financial sector

Impacts in our daily lives

The Chinese formula scandal

Blood diamonds

Impacts of blockchain on the internet

Summary

A Brief History of Money

An introduction to money

Money as a medium of exchange

Money as a unit of account

Money as a store of value

Money – an abstraction of value

The gold standard

An introduction to fiat currencies

What happens when fiat currency systems fail

How blockchain comes into the picture

Summary

The Birth of Bitcoin and the Advantages of a Decentralized Payment System

How Bitcoin came into existence

The beginning of the economic crisis

The birth of Bitcoin

Projects leading up to Bitcoin

An introduction to Bitcoin

Double-spending and how Bitcoin resolved it

How traditional payment systems work

Electronic transfers in banks

Credit and debit card transactions

Transactions in PayPal

Differences between centralized and decentralized payment systems

Summary

Five Forces of Bitcoin - #1 Blockchain

Introduction to Bitcoin's five forces

The first force – blockchain

Why blockchain is better

How blockchain works

Different types of blockchain

Public blockchains

Private blockchains

Value of blockchain

Areas where blockchain can be handy

Summary

Five Forces of Bitcoin - #2 Cryptography

Introduction to cryptography

Uses of cryptography in early times

Types of cryptography

Cryptographic techniques used in Bitcoin

Hash functions

Digital signatures

Summary

Five Forces of Bitcoin - #3 Consensus Algorithm

The Byzantine Generals' Problem

The Proof-of-Work consensus algorithm

Introduction to mining

The different aspects of a Bitcoin transaction

Nonce and difficulty

The computing power

Decentralized consensus and game theory

Examples of miner misbehavior

Example of double-spending

The architecture surrounding the Bitcoin network

Consensus attacks

Summary

Five Forces of Bitcoin - #4 P2P Network

Introduction to P2P networks

P2P model versus client-server model

Financial transactions

How Bitcoin differs

Nodes of the Bitcoin network

Types of nodes

Full nodes

SPV nodes

The Bitcoin P2P network

The mainnet

The testnet

Additional entities

Summary

Five Forces of Bitcoin - #5 Software Code Base

Introduction to Bitcoin's software code case

Wallets

Blockchain explorer

Bitcoin's scripting language

Bitcoin as an application platform

Asset registry

Crowdfunding

Summary

How Ethereum Took the Idea of Blockchain to the Next Level

Introduction to Ethereum

How Ethereum came into existence

The Theil fellowship

Understanding Ethereum

The Ethereum Virtual Machine

Introduction to virtual machines

Summary

Ethereum - A Global Platform for Decentralized Applications

Decentralized applications based on Ethereum

Types of decentralized applications

Ethereum and initial coin offerings

Decentralized autonomous organizations

The DAO

Summary

Blockchains Focused on Specific Sectors and Use Cases

The different categories of blockchain

Sector-specific public blockchains

Blockchain and IoT

Private blockchains

How blockchain affects privacy

Blockchain cryptoassets dealing with privacy

Summary

Corporate Blockchains

Introduction to corporate blockchains

R3 Corda

The core services provided by blockchains

Hyperledger

The Hyperledger frameworks

Hyperledger Fabric

Hyperledger Sawtooth

Sawtooth architecture

Hyperledger Iroha

Hyperledger Burrow

Hyperledger Indy

Enterprise Ethereum Alliance

Private blockchains for business

Summary

The Disruptive Potential of Blockchain Technology

Blockchain and financial services

How blockchain comes into the picture

Why banks shouldn't ignore blockchain

But why should banks even bother?

Banking business lines that can be potentially disrupted

How blockchain can affect lending

Trade finance on the blockchain

Blockchain and insurance

Investment banking and blockchain

Blockchain and financial regulation

Blockchain and the retail sector

The Internet of Things

How is this related to the retail industry?

Blockchain and intellectual property

Blockchain and the food sector

Blockchain and the transportation sector

Blockchain and the global tech giants

Google

How could blockchain disrupt YouTube's dominance?

How could Blockchain disrupt AdSense?

Facebook

How could blockchain disrupt Facebook's business?

Amazon

The impact of blockchain on Amazon Web services

Apple

Summary

Blockchain and AI

A brief history of AI

Implementing AI

Projects combining blockchain and AI

Future of AI for smart contracts

Summary

Current Issues and Potential Solutions to Take Blockchain to the Next Level

Issues faced by blockchain

Scalability

Governance

Interoperability

Privacy

Solutions for scalability issues

On-chain solutions

Proof-of-Stake

Sharding

Off-chain solutions

Payment or state channels

Plasma

Truebit

Solutions to other challenges

Next generation blockchain projects

The exciting world of blockchain

Resemblance to previous disruptive innovations

The technology hype cycle

Blockchain and Web 3.0

Summary

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